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Jacob Whitehead was born on Novemeber 11 1994, and is in school right now, on a stalker website, and watching you right now..

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+Jacob Whitehead was born on Novemeber 11 1994, and is in school right now, on a stalker website, and watching you right now..
-'''Wendy W. Jacob''' (born  [[March 27]], [[1958]])  is an [[List of American artists|American artist]] known for her work as an urban interventionist. She has created installations and interventions in social spaces since 1989, and has developed a distinct body of [[Sculpture|sculptural]] works which investigate the interface between [[architecture]] and animate bodies.  Jacob is also a member of the [[Chicago]]-based collaborative Haha, whose work focuses on the exploration of social positions relative to a particular site, and which has produced over two dozen influential projects since the late 80s.<ref>''Haha: Everyday Matters'', University of Chicago Press, 2007.</ref>
-One of Jacob's well-known collaborations has been the creation of the ''Squeeze Chair'', inspired by [[Temple Grandin]]'s [[hug machine]]. For several years, Jacob has worked with Grandin in developing furniture that squeezes or 'hugs' users.<ref>"Wendy Jacob and Jin Lee at Chicago Project Room," ''Art in America'', 87.4 (April 1999), page 150.</ref>
-Wendy Jacob has had solo exhibitions at the [[Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art]] [[Kansas City, Missouri|(Kansas City)]]<ref>[http://www.kemperart.org/exhibits/PastExhibits/WendyJacob.asp ''Wendy Jacob: The Squeeze Chair Project'',  Kemper Art Museum].</ref>, the Madison Art Center ([[Madison, Wisconsin]], 1999]), the [[Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art]] (1998), MIT List Visual Arts Center, the [[Cranbrook Art Museum]] ([[Bloomfield Hills]], [[Michigan]],1998), and the [[Krannert Art Museum]] ([[Champaign (IL)|Champaigne]], [[Illinois]])1997), and many other galleries and institutions in the United States and Europe. Her work resides in the collections of [[Centre Georges-Pompidou]], Paris, France; Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain, Poitou-Charentre, Poitier, France; Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain, Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, France; [[Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego|Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego]], California; and the [[MacArthur Foundation]], Chicago, Illinois.
-Jacob received her bachelor's degree from [[Williams College]] in [[1980]], and her [[Master of Fine Arts]] (MFA) degree from the [[Art Institute of Chicago]]. She has worked as an associate professor of [[visual art]]s at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], Massachusetts.
-==Notes==
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-==External links==
-*[http://architecture.mit.edu/people/profiles/prjacob.html MIT.edu] - 'MIT Architecture/People: Wendy Jacob'
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-[[Category:1958 births]]
-[[Category:Living people]]
-[[Category:American sculptors]]
-[[Category:School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni]]